If you click the link to look at the other photos, in the side view, it looks more like an actual lion, and you can see the taxidermist mounted his "fang" teeth toward the back and the molars in front.

Bathia_Mapes:To be fair, there probably weren't too many people, let alone taxidermists in 18th century Sweden who had seen a lion.

All the more reason to find someone who HAD, dontcha think?!? And what the fark is that lacquered sausage doing hanging out of its mouth? And why does it have retard teeth? Did someone think they were too scary to put in the stuffed lion's head?

Er, well, Mr Anchovy ... I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is an anteater.

A what?

An anteater. Not a lion. You see a lion is a huge savage beast, about five feet high, ten feet long, weighing about four hundred pounds, running forty miles per hour, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and nasty long razor-sharp claws that can rip your belly open before you can say 'Eric Robinson', and they look like this.

I'm just imagining the man who killed it, telling all of his friends: "The mighty beast was regal and fearsome. It's mouth a deadly cavern of razors and it's body clearly built for war. Why, I hardly had time to think for fear of my life. Oh, here's the taxidermist now. I present to you, the ferocious, deadly, LION!"

I Said:I'm just imagining the man who killed it, telling all of his friends: "The mighty beast was regal and fearsome. It's mouth a deadly cavern of razors and it's body clearly built for war. Why, I hardly had time to think for fear of my life. Oh, here's the taxidermist now. I present to you, the ferocious, deadly, LION!"

Even though you didn't rtfa very clearly, I can't stop laughing at this

Oznog:Er, well, Mr Anchovy ... I'm afraid what you've got hold of there is an anteater.

A what?

An anteater. Not a lion. You see a lion is a huge savage beast, about five feet high, ten feet long, weighing about four hundred pounds, running forty miles per hour, with masses of sharp pointed teeth and nasty long razor-sharp claws that can rip your belly open before you can say 'Eric Robinson', and they look like this.